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American Gods, though small gods has a similar theme. The turtle moves!

Also a plot point in Douglas Adams's Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, but they just effectively become homeless vagrants instead of full death. How do you get a passport or a drivers license if you're older than written history? They're pushed out of surviving in modern society.

Also also, it's a bit of a plot thing in Dresden Files, where a bunch of gods have taken on the mantle of multiple mythological entities over time to maintain power. Odin is Santa. The Winter Faerie Court "ladies" were at one point the fates from Greek/Roman myth. One of the progenitors of a vampire bloodline is/was a Mayan deity.